Joe Simon and Jack Kirby’s comics collaborations yielded some classic, spine-tingling tales — and for the first time, the entirety of their work in the genre is being collected, in the new hardcover edition, “The Simon and Kirby Library — Horror,” due this week from English publisher Titan.

Hero Complex readers can check out an exclusive excerpt from the new book in the gallery above or using the links below.

By the time the duo began to explore horror comics with suspense-filled tales such as “Black Magic” and “The Thing in the Fog!” they’d turned out impressive titles starring the Boy Commandos and the Newsboy Legion, among others. The pair had their own company for a short time, Mainline, before pursuing separate paths (then coming back together briefly in 1959 to work on superhero titles for Archie Comics).

Simon died at the age of 98 in 2011; Kirby died in 1994 at the age of 76.

To honor his memory, Kirby’s youngest granddaughter, Jillian, created Kirby4Heroes, a venture she launched to help generate donations for the Hero Initiative, the only nonprofit organization to help comic book creators in need, offering assistance to artists and writers.

Simon and Kirby’s work on superheroes was celebrated in an earlier Titan volume, 2010’s “The Simon & Kirby Superheroes.”